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Random thoughts while waiting for Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lopez to get the pay raises they richly deserve: If Matthew McConaughey gets any weirder, he could run the Lakers. The NHL needs a permanent outdoor venue, and California seems the best potential site. Suggestions: Carson, Hollywood Park, downtown L.A., the City of Industry . . . or high in Griffith Park, overlooking everything. The San Antonio Spurs are one old guy away from becoming a Civil War reenactment. But they still have better knees than the Bulls' Derrick Rose, now headed for the Meniscus Hall of Fame. No sport represents sunshine, warmth and hope the way March baseball does. Favorite spring training...

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Random thoughts while waiting for Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lopez to get the pay raises they richly deserve:
If Matthew McConaughey gets any weirder, he could run the Lakers.
The NHL needs a permanent outdoor venue, and California seems the best...

When young men leave high school early and enroll in the spring semester at USC, what happens to - what would have been - the end of high school? Do they take an equivalence test and graduate early, or does the high school recognize the USC courses and...

The ring was being fitted for his finger. The plaudits were being written for his resume. The skeptical football world had finally opened its arms and was prepared to embrace.
Then Pete Carroll was grabbed by ghosts.
The coach of the Seattle Seahawks...

Alan Hoisch, a decorated World War II pilot and star running back on UCLA's 1947 Rose Bowl team, died Friday of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91.
His death was confirmed by his son John Hoisch.
Hoisch was a member of the Southern...

Former USC players were quick to react to the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl victory over the Seattle Seahawks, and the Seahawks’ disastrous decision to pass the ball instead of giving it to running back Marshawn Lynch in the final seconds.
Malcolm...

College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock said that his group isn't even considering more than four teams in the playoff.
Hancock said Friday there are plenty of reasons why a four-team model was picked, and nothing has changed after the...

Rumors of the death of the Rose Bowl game are, once again, greatly exaggerated. The old girl hasn't lost a step.
That's true, even though college football will play for the big title elsewhere to end this season. And probably elsewhere for seasons to...

Quote of the day: "Three years ago on this day I had told my mother that I had a strong feeling about going to USC. It was the best decision I have ever made!"
-- Zach Banner, USC offensive lineman
USC will play Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl on...

Marcus Mariota lights up a field more than he does a room.
The soft-spoken Oregon quarterback is humble, respectful and next to unquotable after games.
Maybe, though, given the winners of the last few years, boring is just what the Heisman Trophy...

Christmas Day marks the deep-breath pause on this year's sprawling 39-game bowl calendar, the rest stop between the New Mexico Bowl and better tomorrows.
Monday's inaugural Miami Beach Bowl, which sprang spectacularly out of nowhere during daytime soap...

Florida State announced that football Coach Jimbo Fisher has received an extension to keep him with the program through the 2022 season. The announcement Tuesday came less than a year after Fisher's last contract extension.
The No. 3 Seminoles are...

Oregon football's near-pathological aversion to injury acknowledgment is legendary, if not comical.
The company line reminds you of that line from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" — "It's just a flesh wound" — as a knight's limbs are...

Jameis Winston has followed a simple rule regarding fallout from continual off-the-field incidents during his Florida State career.
Stay away from social media.
"I just usually go on Instagram and look at pictures," he said. "I rarely...

UCLA's football team arrived in San Antonio on Sunday. Stanford came along as overhead baggage.
The Bruins hit town to play Kansas State in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2. But their 31-10 loss to the Cardinal in the season finale was a big topic of...

The secret to Florida State's undefeated regular season was actually quite simple.
The message that football Coach Jimbo Fisher delivered to his players at crucial moments — in the heat of seven nail-biting victories — cut straight to the chase.
...

Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota is too polite to state the obvious: He will enter the NFL draft just as soon as the season ends.
His college career will end after the Rose Bowl on Thursday or the College Football Playoff title game on Jan. 12.
...

They are swooping down upon Pasadena this week like Santa Ana winds in October.
They irritate. They agitate. They make blood boil. They make skin crawl. Face it, they just arrived and we can't wait for them to leave.
But, like it or not, the Florida...

THE HIGHS
• Last January, the Rose Bowl ushered out the Bowl Championship Series era with a terrific closing act. Florida State scored with 13 seconds left to cap an exciting victory over Auburn. The Rose Bowl played host to four national titles in the...